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Genesis 8:1-7
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Genesis 8:1-7
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God remembered Noah, all those alive, and all the animals with him in the ark. God sent a wind over the earth so that the waters receded.
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The springs of the deep sea and the skies closed up. The skies held back the rain.
3
The waters receded gradually from the earth. After one hundred fifty days, the waters decreased;
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and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day, the ark came to rest on the Ararat mountains.
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The waters decreased gradually until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the mountain peaks appeared.
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After forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made.
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He sent out a raven, and it flew back and forth until the waters over the entire earth had dried up.
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the windows of the skies
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